Camp Funston is a U.S. Army training camp located on the grounds of Fort Riley , southwest of Manhattan, Kansas . The camp was named for Brigadier General Frederick Funston (1865–1917). It is one of sixteen such camps that were established at the outbreak of World War I for use as infantry division training camps.
24-499: Haskell County is the name of several counties in the United States: Haskell County, Kansas Haskell County, Oklahoma Haskell County, Texas [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
48-464: A 30% food sales requirement. List of townships / incorporated cities / unincorporated communities / extinct former communities within Haskell County. Haskell County is divided into three townships . None of the cities within the county are considered governmentally independent , and all figures for the townships include those of the cities. In the following table, the population center is
72-429: A few select cases, for return to duty. The Correctional Brigade environment was unique in that prisoner control was maintained by military discipline, instead of walls and bars, for most of the typical prisoners’ stay. The Correctional Brigade doctrine was that the minimum-custody/military discipline environment when coupled with correctional treatment, educational programs, and military and vocational training best prepared
96-481: A household in the county was $ 38,634, and the median income for a family was $ 43,354. Males had a median income of $ 31,296 versus $ 22,857 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 17,349. About 8.00% of families and 11.60% of the population were below the poverty line , including 15.40% of those under age 18 and 9.40% of those age 65 or over. As do most counties in rural western Kansas, Haskell County leans heavily Republican . The last time Haskell County
120-604: A physician warned public health officials. It remains the first recorded instance suggesting that a new virus was adapting, violently, to man. If the virus did not originate in Haskell, there is no good explanation for how it arrived there. There were no other known outbreaks anywhere in the United States from which someone could have carried the disease to Haskell and no suggestions of influenza outbreaks in either newspapers or reflected in vital statistics anywhere else in
144-485: A role in the virus's origin and that historical accounts are entirely coincidental. The railroad and the development of oil and gas fields in the 1930s, and the locating of many deep wells for irrigation significantly improved the economy of the area helping overcome the "dust bowl" of that period. Haskell County was one of the hardest hit counties in the Midwest during the drought of 1930–1937. The first rodeo and fair
168-575: A uniform. In March 1918, some of the first recorded American cases of what came to be the worldwide influenza pandemic , also known as " Spanish flu ", were reported at Camp Funston. Prior to October 1992, Camp Funston was the home of the United States Army Correctional Activity, formerly the U.S. Army Retraining Brigade, whose mission was officially to prepare military prisoners for transition to civilian life as useful citizens with general discharges or, in
192-524: Is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas . Its county seat and most populous city is Sublette . As of the 2020 census , the county population was 3,780. The county was named after Dudley Haskell , a congressman during the 1870s and 1880s. For millennia , the Great Plains of North America were inhabited by nomadic Native Americans . In 1854, the Kansas Territory
216-641: Is water. Haskell County is the flattest county in Kansas. As of the U.S. Census in 2000 , there were 4,307 people, 1,481 households, and 1,153 families residing in the county. The population density was 8 people per square mile (3.1 people/km ). There were 1,639 housing units at an average density of 3 per square mile (1.2/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 85.07% White , 0.63% Asian , 0.58% Native American , 0.19% Black or African American , 11.45% from other races, and 2.09% from two or more races . Hispanic or Latino of any race were 23.57% of
240-430: The 89th Division , which was deployed to France in the spring of 1918, the 10th Division and black soldiers assigned to the 92nd Division . During World War I, Camp Funston also served as a detention camp for conscientious objectors (COs) many of which were Mennonite in faith. Since it was compulsory, Hutterites sent their young men to military camps, but they did not allow them to obey any military commands or wear
264-421: The 164th Depot Brigade, commanders of which included George King Hunter . Depot brigades were responsible for receiving, housing, equipping, and training enlistees and draftees, and for demobilizing them after the war. During World War I, two divisions commanded by Major General Leonard Wood , totaling nearly 50,000 recruits, trained at Camp Funston. Notable units who received training at Camp Funston include
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#1732765380063288-400: The editors of Public Health Reports of the U.S. Public Health Service about the new and more deadly variant of the virus. It produced the common influenza symptoms with a new intensity: "violent headache and body aches, high fever, non-productive cough... This was violent, rapid in its progress through the body, and sometimes lethal. This influenza killed. Soon dozens of patients—the strongest,
312-420: The healthiest, the most robust people in the county—were being struck down as suddenly as if they had been shot." Barry writes that in the first six months of 1918, Miner's warning of "the influenza of a severe type" was the only reference in that journal to influenza anywhere in the world. Haskell County, Kansas, is the first recorded instance anywhere in the world of an outbreak of influenza so unusual that
336-414: The largest city (or cities) included in that township's population total, if it is of a significant size. 37°34′N 100°52′W / 37.567°N 100.867°W / 37.567; -100.867 Camp Funston Construction began during the summer of 1917 and eventually encompassed approximately 1,400 buildings on 2,000 acres (8.1 km ). The Camp Funston garrison was administered by
360-419: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haskell_County&oldid=932867404 " Category : United States county name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Haskell County, Kansas Haskell County
384-459: The path of the disease from Haskell to the world occurred when newly inducted soldiers from the county traveled 200 miles from the county to Camp Funston (now Fort Riley ) and were then deployed to Europe at the beginning of United States involvement in World War I . However, Haskell County's role in the pandemic is widely disputed . Many pathologists believe that Haskell County did not play
408-402: The population. There were 1,481 households , out of which 43.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.40% were married couples living together, 5.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.10% were non-families. 20.10% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size
432-472: The region. And unlike the 1916 outbreak in France, one can trace with perfect definiteness the route of the virus from Haskell to the outside world. Miner's report was not published until April 1918 and it failed to collect the attention it needed. It was not until after 2000 that historians' research revealed the origin of one of the deadliest epidemics in human history. Historians have generally reported that
456-642: The training of all military transition teams for service in Iraq and Afghanistan takes place. Previously, transition teams had been trained at several U.S. Army installations, most notably Fort Carson, Colorado ; Camp Atterbury, Indiana ; Fort Hood, Texas ; and Camp Shelby, Mississippi . However, in early 2006, the U.S. Army decided to consolidate all training at Fort Riley, Kansas , in order to standardize and improve training for that critical mission. The first teams began training on June 1, 2006. The 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division took over command and control of
480-406: The typical first-time prisoner for a crime-free life after prison as either a productive soldier or a useful citizen in civilian life. Moreover, this correctional system was asserted to be less expensive to establish and operate than the traditional prison. The camp had a cinema that was open to the residents of Fort Riley, including those outside of Camp Funston. Camp Funston was the location where
504-402: Was 2.88 and the average family size was 3.35. In the county, the population was spread out, with 32.90% under the age of 18, 9.10% from 18 to 24, 27.80% from 25 to 44, 19.50% from 45 to 64, and 10.60% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 103.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.30 males. The median income for
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#1732765380063528-491: Was carried by a Democratic presidential nominee was 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson won the county as part of his nationwide landslide victory. Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Haskell County remained a prohibition, or "dry" , county until 2023, after voters in the county approved the 1986 amendment with
552-560: Was held in Sublette in 1916 and the fair continues at the same location. The first school district was founded in Santa Fe in 1887. Amanda I. Watkins, who owned a considerable amount of land in the county, was named "World Wheat Queen" in 1926. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 578 square miles (1,500 km ), of which 578 square miles (1,500 km ) is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km ) (0.06%)
576-420: Was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state . Haskell County was founded in 1887. It was named for Dudley C. Haskell , a former member of Congress. Historian John M. Barry concluded that Haskell County was the location of the first outbreak of the 1918 flu pandemic (nicknamed "Spanish flu"), which killed between 21 and 100 million people. Loring Miner, a Haskell County doctor, warned
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